...Shalonda Mitchell Professor: Dr. Paul Hackman ENG 215 Research and Writing January 15, 2013 My first experience with persuasive writing was in the fifth grade. I had to write a persuasive letter to the school principal, in an attempt to convince her that I should be chosen to represent Westside Elementary School’s fifth grade class at the annual Math Bee. Of the four fifth grade classes; myself and two other fifth grade students were chosen due to our high scores on the statewide math test. I saw this as an opportunity to finally represent my class because I have always loved to write; as well as, I really enjoyed math at that level. In my letter I chose to remind my principal how well prepared for class I am every day. Each day I showed up with all the items listed on my learning log. At the beginning of every school year each student was given a laminated learning log for their grade level. We were instructed to attach the learning logs to the front of our notebooks, as a reminder of what we should have when we arrive for school in the morning. Each day I came prepared with everything listed on the learning log. I also reminded my principal how polite and respectful I was to both she and my fellow classmates. I enjoyed school and I knew the importance of good behavior and respect. My parents would often remind me that what I did outside of the home reflects who they are and if I behaved poorly or in a disrespectful manner there would be consequences. Finally...
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...Clarity of message Lack of feedback 3. What is written communication? Why is it Important compared to oral communication? (4 marks) Written communication is a form of communication written using symbols between people or groups. It is important for - For record purpose - Legal issues - For reference purpose - Purpose of clarity (pictures, authority, etc) - To be formal 4. What are the good practices that increase the effectiveness of communication? (4 marks) Ways to improve effective communication - Continually practice writing in the language - write with a clear purpose that meets the needs of the reader - decide what you want to say and put this in a logical and suitable sequence - Use words, sentences, paragraphs and layout to convey your meaning concisely, courteously and confidently - Edit your own work critically. - written work must undergo three important stages • planning, • Writing, and • editing. 5. Difference between email and letter (4 marks) E-mail is short for electronic mail and is a method of composing, sending and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. - No set format in email - Used...
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...to convince a particular audience. The text is the argument. Whether it is written, visual, or spoken, the text will have characteristics you can analyze. The end or conclusion either summarizes by restating important points or concludes by emphasizing the most important point, whatever it is that the author wants you to accept, remember, believe or agree. A Bare Bones Guide to Persuasive Writing The audience of this article is interested in the art of persuasive writing as told by the author Rod Baird. The Author’s purpose is to show how the art of persuasion is more like the art of debate. The reasoning for this is because one can begin by stating their opinion and then show evidence to support it. The author goes as far to point out eight helpful techniques that will help you come up with an effective argument in your persuasive writing. Personal appeal, tone, precision, concession, rebuttal, logic, authority and rhetorical question are the eight techniques. The article gives an example of a persuasive writing that came in the form of a letter to a school principal. The persuasive letter is intended to convince the Principal that the school needs up to date software. The audience is obviously the principal. The purpose is to convince the principal to buy new software for the schools computers and systems. The person gives examples of certain software and explains how and where to get it. The writer also utilizes someone else’s argument to...
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...BUSN Chapter 2 Three step writing process Planning, Writing, and Completing your message The stage during which you step back to see whether you have expressed your idea? Completing The primary Audience for your message is made up of? The key decision makers The chief advantage of oral communication is? opportunity for immediate feedback In part media richness refers to? A medium's ability to facilitate feedback The richest communication medium Face to face conversation For persuasive messages, the best approach is to? Emphasize how your audience will benefit A euphemism is a word or phrase that is? A milder term for one with a negotive connotations The most common tone for a business message is? conversational Words such as nevertheless, however, and therefore? Are useful for making transitions The main task in completing a business message consist of? revising, proofreading, and producing When reviewing your document for content, you should be concerned with? The accuracy and relevance of the information For general business messages, your writing should be geared toward readers at the? 8th to 11th grage level Using space in a document? provides contrast Justified type is type that? Set flush on the left and flush on the right When making a routine request, you begin with? A clear statement of the main idea or request When making a request, you should? Assume the reader will...
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...Khalid, Abate #1_Style Analysis Virginia M. Rometty, president and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM), writes a letter to shareholders containing an annual report (2001) of the company. In this letter Rometty, aims to convince her readers of how well the company is doing even in a recession. She did that by means of presenting facts (plain) and also reaching to them in a softer more informal tone (persuasive). Rometty begins her letter by adopting a very positive and optimistic tone. “I am pleased to report that IBM had another strong year in 2011” by doing this she is able to capture the readers interest, making them eager to read more about this great news. In her very next sentence she lets her shareholders know of their importance by saying “your company...” rather than just saying the company. This shows her understanding of who her audiences are; by choosing her words carefully she is able to instill confidence into the shareholders, letting them know that the company was able to achieve this great success because of them. Using the pronoun “your” she is also letting them know, this is their company and the actions they take impacts its performance. Shortly after capturing the readers interest in her persuasive style introductory, Rometty shifts her writing style to plain by introducing small paragraphs stating facts about the company’s revenue and income, margins, earning per share, cash flow etc. what’s interesting is that she’s not only presenting facts...
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...communication. COM 140 Week 3 DQ 1 Post your response to the following: In what ways are purpose, audience, tone, and content different for interpersonal and business communication? Provide specific examples to support your answer. · Consider your own experience as you answer this question. If you have not worked in a business environment, you may ask a friend, parent, or other adult about his or her experiences. COM 140 Week 3 DQ 2 Post your response to the following: What qualities make any form of written communication effective? Which qualities do you already include in your writing? How can you incorporate additional effective elements into your written communication? COM 140 Week 5 DQ 1 Post your response to the following: Recall a situation in which someone was trying to persuade you. How effective was the argument? What could have made the argument more persuasive? COM 140 Week 5 DQ 2...
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...|The organization is persuasive and calls for action.| c.|The receiver gets the details and explanation right away.| d.|The good news in the first sentence puts receivers in a good frame of mind.| ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 86 MSC: Remember 2. What should the organization of business messages be based on? a.|the direct pattern| b.|the indirect pattern| c.|the writer’s mood and personality| d.|a prediction of the receiver’s reaction to the main idea| ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 90 MSC: Remember 3. Which statement about strategies for structuring effective good- and neutral-news messages is true? a.|The strategies should be consistent throughout your writing.| b.|The strategies vary dramatically from one company to another.| c.|The strategies can generally be applied to cultures around the world.| d.|The strategies are generally consistent among North American audiences.| ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 90 MSC: Remember 4. You are writing to ABClothes.com to request an exchange for an ordered shirt that was recently sent to you in the incorrect size. What type of message will it be? a.|a routine claim| b.|a goodwill message| c.|a persuasive request| d.|a negative news message| ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: p. 90 MSC: Higher Order 5. How does the tone of a letter differ from that of other communication channels? a.|Emails are more formal than letters.| b.|Memos are more formal than letters.| c.|Letters are less formal than memos.| d.|Letters are more formal than...
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...Dr. King uses a great writing technique such as using a logical and emotional appeal and adding it to his writings to get people more interested. In this letter that he wrote, he did a much better job crafting an emotional appeal than a logical one. There are a few reasons behind my thinking, but overall he used both very well to grab the reader's attention using words. Word’s influence people so much and Dr. King did a great job using them to get people to see his point of view. Overall this letter is a very persuasive letter that has lots of emotion in his writing to get people to feel a certain way about the topic, in this case it is segregation and racism. The use of an emotional appeal is so ideal in Dr. King’s writing because he is...
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...Curriculum Map Subjects 2nd Grade English Language Arts State Learning Objectives Reading-Students will be able to use relationships between letters, sounds and spelling patterns. They will understand how to distinguish features of a sentence. Example: Capitalization and punctuation. Students will be able to make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure of plays, dramas. Writing-Students will be able to use elements in the writing process. Such as planning, drafting, revising and editing. Students will learn how to express their ideas and feelings about imagined things. Students will write persuasive statements about issues that are important to an appropriate audience. Concepts/Skills/Ideas Explain the details and facts about stories and support their information with evidence from text. Identify clues while making adjustments and corrections. Incorporate their ideas with brainstorming. Describe similarities and differences about characters or text. Distinguish between persuasive and influence of actions using academic language. Also practice use of language in writing and while speaking. Assessment Students will choose a book weekly and draw predictions, facts and details about the story. Students will be given assignments where they identify the plot, setting and description of main characters. Identify fiction or non fiction. Vocabulary words will be reviewed every week using different constance, vowel ...
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...ENGL510 – Foundations of Professional Communication Writing Assignment 2 – Persuasive Message Below you will find four documents: 1. The assignment itself – pages 2-3 2. A template to follow in writing the message called for in the assignment – page 4 3. A sample message that you can use as a model – page 5 4. The criteria that will be used in grading the message – page 6 Please read all of these carefully and let me know if you have questions about any of them. Please also see the model persuasive message on page 139 (Chapter 8) of the textbook, as well as the Week 2 discussion of two possible versions of a persuasive message. In Week 3, please save your assignment draft, as a Word document, using the file name “2yourlastname1,” and post it in the Week 3 Writing Assignment 2 Draft Dropbox by midnight Sunday. In Week 4, please re-save your assignment revision using the file name “2yourlastname2,” and post it in the Week 4 Writing Assignment 2 Revision Dropbox by midnight Sunday. Please use the following basic formatting: • Memo heading (see page 87 of the textbook) • One-inch margins all around • Left-only justification • 12-point regular Times New Roman font. (Although 11-point Calibri is Word’s default font, serif fonts like Times New Roman are more reader friendly for longer texts because the serifs draw the eye forward, while sans-serif fonts like Calibri are more effective for very brief texts in which you want to hold...
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...6Week/Date | Topic/Activity | Homework | Week 69/10 | - Introduction to Argumentation- Writing a letter of complaint | - Complete your letter of complaint- Familiarize yourself with APA style by reading pgs. 200-216 and 220-222 in Essay Essentials- Read “Making the Argument” from the Essay Essentials website: click here. | Week 716/10 | - Open book quiz: APA Style- Good Arguments VS Bad Arguments- Organizing an argument; making a reverse outline- Selecting debate groups and begin debate prep | - Complete your assigned role for the debate (researching or speech writing) | INTERSESSION WEEK: NO CLASS 23/10 | Week 830/10 | - Debate Day - time allocated for final debate prep - hold debate | - Complete your Persuasive Essay | END OF UNIT TWO: PERSUASIVE ESSAY DUE 6/11 | Week 96/11 | - Defining the research essay- Evaluating research sources- Summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting | - Watch the GBC Plagiarism tutorial: click here. | Week 1013/11 | - How to Research: Field trip to GBC Library | - Complete the “Refine Your Thesis” annotated bibliography template and an essay outline- Submit your grammar questions | Week 1120/11 | - Plagiarism Quiz- GrammarOnDemand! - Instructor-student meetings: bring annotated bibliography template and your essay outline | | Week 1227/11 | - Instructor-student meetings: bring your annotated bibliography template and your essay outline | - Complete your Research Essay | COMM 1007 FALL 2012: SCHEDULE 2.0 FOR UNITS...
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...ADMN 233 Assignment 3 Part 1 Routine E-Mail Messages and Memos 25 marks (Questions 1 and 2) Refer as needed to material in Chapter 8. Read the instructions for each activity. Answer all questions clearly and concisely. Include examples to support your answers. Activity A – Routine memo Read the following scenario and respond to the question that follows. Scenario 1: Performance Assessment Judith Halls, Manager of Human Resources at The Maritime Fish Packing Cooperative, wrote the following first draft of a reply memo. | The Maritime Fish Packing Cooperative | |Interoffice Memo | | | |Date: December 4, 2009 | | | |To: Michael Foreman, President ...
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...one truism that rings throughout the legal community: lawyers write. What students learn in the Legal Writing and Analysis, Appellate Advocacy, and other courses that fulfill the upper-level writing requirement is essential to becoming an effective advocate. As in many law schools' writing courses, students learn the basics for formulating, writing, and defending a legal argument — research, jurisdiction, use of authority, standards of review, and effective methods for completing written legal analysis. II. Distinguishing Features. Legal writing places heavy reliance on authority. In most legal writing, the writer must back up assertions and statements with citations to authority. This is accomplished by a unique and complicated citation system, unlike that used in any other genre of writing. Legal writing values precedent, as distinct from authority. Precedent means the way things have been done before. For example, a lawyer who must prepare a contract and who has prepared a similar contract before will often re-use, with limited changes, the old contract for the new occasion. Or a lawyer who has filed a successful motion to dismiss a lawsuit may use the same or a very similar form of motion again in another case, and so on. Many lawyers use and re-use written documents in this way and call these re-usable documents templates or, less commonly, forms. Legal writing extensively uses technical terminology that can be categorized in four categories: a. Specialized...
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...service. To do so, write a sales letter. In selecting the product or service for your company, choose a topic that interests you. This could be a topic that you're currently involved with at work. It could be a topic related to your major at college. Perhaps you'll want to write about a hobby (dog training, wood working, gardening, parasailing, etc.). Whatever topic you select, have fun and be creative. NOTE: All subsequent assignments in this class (your flier, letter of inquiry, memo, user manual, and report) will ask you to write about the same topic you have chosen for the sales letter. Therefore, pick a good topic for your sales letter--one that you enjoy, one that you can live with for a few months, one that lends itself to a how-to user manual, and one that is mature and appropriate for a college class. Why write about the same topic over and over? I'm asking you to practice a very common skill in technical writing called "single sourcing." In "single sourcing," tech writers use and reuse content in different communication channels.You're not required to stick with the same topic. If you want to change topics from assignment to assignment, go ahead. But, reusing the same topic (and graphics) could save you time throughout the semester. | Now that you know the objectives for this assignment, follow this sequence: Read the sales letter's criteria to learn exactly what your letter will include. Review the sample sales letter. Prewrite to gather data, to determine...
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...QUESTION 1 1. In responding positively to a request, you will want to a. focus your message first on resale or on the promotion of other business products. b. apply an indirect pattern to demonstrate respect for the recipient. c. start with an explanation of the reasons the request is granted. d. apply the same direct pattern used in making requests. 4 points QUESTION 2 1. Blogs have several internal communication purposes including a. providing information about benefits or featuring profiles on key employees. b. posting employee changes such as layoffs, promotions, and firings. c. announcing employee illnesses, adoptions, and vacations. d. posting administrative salaries, raises, and incentive packages. 4 points QUESTION 3 1. Personally delivering bad news is sometimes recommended, but written messages are important to establish a record of the incident, to formally confirm follow-up procedures, and a. to persuade the receiver to follow your recommendations. b. to denote your leadership rank. c. to promote good relations. d. to allow you to identify your organization and position. 4 points QUESTION 4 1. An e-mail message or memo usually ends with action information, needed dates, a summary of the message, or a a. reference line that includes the typist's initials. b. copyright notice or confidentiality statement. c. witty quotation. d. closing thought. 4 points QUESTION 5 1. Porter's company...
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